Car-fender



(No Mdel.)

' J. M. STALEY.

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Patented Nov. 3,1896.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J AMES M. STALEY, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,571, dated November3, 1896.

Application filed March 17 1896.

To (LZZ whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES M. STALEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Fenders; and Ido declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

The special object of the invention is to make a car-fender which willproject laterally over the track, so as to pick up anything as large asa broom-handle and pass it off to one side of the track, which willpreserve its position over the track on all curves and adjust itself todifferent elevations of the rails, and which will throw intruders on thetrack back upon an open mesh of wire, to which they can cling until thecar stops.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view showing my inventionapplied; Fig. 2, a detail view of the metallic frame which carries theopen-work wire, and Fig. 3 a detail view of the running-gear.

In the drawings, A represents the running gear, which consists of theflat metallic reach a, with the hole a near its end, so as to be pivotedto center of truck-frame at the front end of car. This allows the fenderto follow the track when the car turns into a street at' right angles tothe one on which it has been traveling, thus enabling it always to coverthe space between the tracks and on the tracks. Integral with the reachCL and at right angles thereto are the upwardly curved springarms a awhich are held by the clips a to the axle B. This axle is fixed, whileits wheels 0 0 turn freely upon its ends between a col- Serial No.583,607. (No model.)

lar b and a nut b. The upper ends of the spring-arms a a are fastened tothe sides of the metallic frame D, which is thus supported between thetrack, while the sides e erun just above the rails. The wheels areshaped so as to run on the tracks like a ear-wheel and follow all of itsturns independently of the car.

G is a standard rising up vertically from the reach and on its upperedge to form a hook g, which engages the front side of the metallicframe 0, at the middle thereof, and prevents the front of the fenderfrom being carried down too far byaweight thrown upon it.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding ofmy invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by LettersPatent, is-- In a car-fender, a reach pivoted to the center of fronttruck-frame and having springarms secured to axle at the lower ends, aframe D attached to the upper ends of said springs I and supportedelastically, awire frame E, the

